27 When Jesus8:27 Greek he; also verses 38, 42 had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house [Rev. 18:2]but among the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he ch. 4:33,34;Mark 1:23,24,26;Acts 8:7cried out and fell down before him and said ch. 4:33,34;Mark 1:23,24,26;Acts 8:7with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, [ch. 4:3,9]; See Matt. 14:33Son of ch. 1:32;6:35;Gen. 14:18;Num. 24:16;Ps. 57:2;Isa. 14:14;Dan. 3:26;Acts 16:17the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me." 29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon [ch. 11:24;Matt. 12:43]into the desert.) 30 Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, Matt. 26:53"Legion," for many demons had entered him. 31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into See Rev. 9:1the abyss. 32 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into ver. 22, 23the lake and drowned.
34 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. 35 Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting ch. 10:39at the feet of Jesus, [ver. 27]clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.